Welcome to Introduction to Self-Driving Cars, the first course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization.
This course will introduce you to the terminology, design considerations and safety assessment of self-driving cars. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand commonly used hardware used for self-driving cars
- Identify the main components of the self-driving software stack
- Program vehicle modelling and control
- Analyze the safety frameworks and current industry practices for vehicle development
For the final project in this course, you will develop control code to navigate a self-driving car around a racetrack in the CARLA simulation environment. You will construct longitudinal and lateral dynamic models for a vehicle and create controllers that regulate speed and path tracking performance using Python. You’ll test the limits of your control design and learn the challenges inherent in driving at the limit of vehicle performance.
This is an advanced course, intended for learners with a background in mechanical engineering, computer and electrical engineering, or robotics. To succeed in this course, you should have programming experience in Python 3.0, familiarity with Linear Algebra (matrices, vectors, matrix multiplication, rank, Eigenvalues and vectors and inverses), Statistics (Gaussian probability distributions), Calculus and Physics (forces, moments, inertia, Newton's Laws).
You will also need certain hardware and software specifications in order to effectively run the CARLA simulator: Windows 7 64-bit (or later) or Ubuntu 16.04 (or later), Quad-core Intel or AMD processor (2.5 GHz or faster), NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher, 8 GB RAM, and OpenGL 3 or greater (for Linux computers).

AP

The best course to amass knowledge on the basics of self-driving cars.\n\nWould recommend it for everyone who meets the pre-requisites of this course.

KK

Jun 02, 2019

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Exceptional Advanced Course that also provides the subtle basic nudges for everyone to comprehend as well. Really Delighted on taking this Course.

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Module 0: Welcome to the Self-Driving Cars Specialization!

This module will introduce you to the main concepts and layout of the specialization and discusses the major advances made in the field over the last two decades, highlighting the most recent progress made by major players in terms of safety and performance metrics, where available.

Преподаватели

Steven Waslander

Associate Professor

Jonathan Kelly

Assistant Professor

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My name is Jonathan Kelly, and I am an assistant professor at the Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto Canada. As a child, I used to love to go every month to the magazine store, and I would always read popular mechanics or popular science. They had all these interesting articles about things with space travel, to new vehicles, to new computing designs, just really interesting stuff. So, that's ultimately what prompted me to start looking at science and technology as a possible career choice. One of the things that happened when I was quite young was the first space shuttle disaster, the Challenger disaster. I can still remember that actually, and thinking just, my goodness, how this that something must have gone wrong, and just how dire the consequences were this this tremendous explosion. At the time, I just remember sitting stunned, thinking technologies sort of always worked. That was my opinion. Technology always works. It doesn't fail. Cars don't just explode. Then seeing this on television really brought it home that engineering really does matter. Solid engineering is critically important in these life-threatening or potentially life-changing situations. Self-driving cars are in many ways very similar. We have a responsibility as engineers to design these systems to be as safe and reliable as possible as we can. It's one of the things that's the most exciting technology revolutions that's really coming in the near term. New ideas, new technologies, new designs are coming down the pipe every single day. I often to sit down at my desk and my eyes sort of pop, when I see the number of innovative new ideas and techniques that people are coming out with. It's also excitement from a point of view of actually changing the technology landscape and doing something that will potentially benefit a lot of people.